Payroll giving
- Thread starter Lanolin
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Thank you all
I haven't really started looking yet.
I usually go for local jobs and ideally ones that aren't a hassle to get to and park. If I can work from home it might be even better although I don't really want one where I'm tied to a computer or phone all day. A part-time one that I can do more of in the school holidays would be good.
I might ask on the library list serv what second jobs other school librarians have cos we just don't get paid in the school holidays, we often get annualised so that it can cover us.
This is to pay for important stuff that gets huge bills like...ugh. The dentist. Oh and if I want to actually get AWAY for a holiday, be nice to have money to pay for the travel! Mostly I just stay at home.
I haven't really started looking yet.
I usually go for local jobs and ideally ones that aren't a hassle to get to and park. If I can work from home it might be even better although I don't really want one where I'm tied to a computer or phone all day. A part-time one that I can do more of in the school holidays would be good.
I might ask on the library list serv what second jobs other school librarians have cos we just don't get paid in the school holidays, we often get annualised so that it can cover us.
This is to pay for important stuff that gets huge bills like...ugh. The dentist. Oh and if I want to actually get AWAY for a holiday, be nice to have money to pay for the travel! Mostly I just stay at home.
My last day at work today ...boss gave me flowers and a card. Aw. But no job.
Apparently inflation will happen. But before I went he informed me librarians will no longer get reward discounts.
I don't know what kind of back-handed compliment that was, but it could be he just doesn't want our business anymore.
Apparently inflation will happen. But before I went he informed me librarians will no longer get reward discounts.
I don't know what kind of back-handed compliment that was, but it could be he just doesn't want our business anymore.
Hope so
I saw supermarkets advertising for check out people.
Or COPS.
I don't think I want to do that. I remember one of my friends took a part-time job being merchandiser for a supermarket (basically just shelving) and what a drag that job was, esp when her supervisor seemed to have no idea what to do. (I don't much like supermarkets anyway)
I think the problem with a lot of jobs is that..they might only take ONE person. Situations are never really advertised where you might need a team of people or a family, or where you do it with others job share etc. Everyone is just kind of expected to either do everything (with no support), or they do the same ONE thing over and over and get really bored.
Anyway I am just thinking that cos around the corner from me are 3 big supermarkets and I just don't want to go there. Unless maybe they were giving all their leftover foods to church community people in need or the garden for compost or something like that... I could be the local delivery person.
The only thing I'd really like to do is plant hundreds of spring bulbs in the garden, there is a bulb farm up north and they might require workers to harvest bulbs, for a couple of weeks but that means need a temp place to stay while doing that (unless living in your car..um how?) OR maybe they could send me a whole lot of bulbs and I could sell them to my gardening friends as fundraisers.
However when I emailed them about it the email came back undelivered. They also had a thing were you could win lots of bulbs, so I put my community garden up for that.
Otherwise I can't think of any other jobs going at the moment (ones I can do). I've heard there's a shortage of vets! But I am not a vet. Have worked as a vet nurse tho, in a casual job. But nursing isn't really for me.
However when I emailed them about it the email came back undelivered. They also had a thing were you could win lots of bulbs, so I put my community garden up for that.
Otherwise I can't think of any other jobs going at the moment (ones I can do). I've heard there's a shortage of vets! But I am not a vet. Have worked as a vet nurse tho, in a casual job. But nursing isn't really for me.
Before I moved here I volunteered sorting food at a food bank. Many local grocery stores regularly went thru their shelves discarding items close to their sell by date. Their discards were sent to the food bank.
As an asside, volunteering serving your community is a good way to keep involved after loosing a job. Someone may also notice you and offer a paying job. At the very least it is better to have an activity on your resume than to have a gap in experience.
well I have sort of established a kind of connection with the local supermarket thats around the corner from my school. They had given my school library funds to buy bean bags and also gift vouchers (which I still haven't given out) for top reader prizes.
Maybe I can ask them...? I don't know if that local church (also round the corner from school) operates any food bank though I don't go to that particular church (even though was water baptised there) its just that at the time, they had an odd way of organising jobs and a friend who also went there wasn't happy volunteering there, but it might have changed. I did contact them once about library books (I do book fridges - kind of like a food bank except with books) but they were quite adamant they didn't want any. So I never went back.
The only other thing I can think of is the farmers market on Saturday where one of the community gardeners (also round the corner from school) sells her produce. Though I am fairly tired of being a cashier but I suppose thats just the what you have to do to get paid. That community gardener had an amazing story how she fled Africa (was it Sudan, or one of those countries) as a refugee and came to nz. There was war and unrest in that country and the govt was exploiting it for mining and people were just living in horrendous conditions. She had no home.
I Iove the way you are thinking of all these different possibilities Lanolin
There was a group of 4 young people near me. They were all out of work. They got together and had some leaflets printed. They each advertised what they had chosen to do. I can only remember two. A young woman picked dog walking (many people become unable to do that themselves), a young man did gardening. It was a huge success. Word gets around. Some people make their own leaflets on the computer.
Dress making or alterations with clothes.
Writing short stories for children
If you are selfemployed though you have to remember to keep your bookkeeping update, for when it comes time to pay the tax man, and keep all your receipts for expenses.
Cake shops, cafes, restaurants etc are always looking for part time workers.
There was a group of 4 young people near me. They were all out of work. They got together and had some leaflets printed. They each advertised what they had chosen to do. I can only remember two. A young woman picked dog walking (many people become unable to do that themselves), a young man did gardening. It was a huge success. Word gets around. Some people make their own leaflets on the computer.
Dress making or alterations with clothes.
Writing short stories for children
If you are selfemployed though you have to remember to keep your bookkeeping update, for when it comes time to pay the tax man, and keep all your receipts for expenses.
Cake shops, cafes, restaurants etc are always looking for part time workers.
I was reading a fiction book about someone who is a lawyer, and it's going on and on and on about 'making partner'. I don't really know what this mysterious 'making partner' business is, which apparently is doing so many 'billable hours' that one never gets any sleep or eats just to prove you are good enough to break through some kind of glass ceiling...but in all my jobs, I just start from the bottom and have never ever been promoted to just a smidgen above what I was already doing.
I just think its always like that..people just look at you as cheap labour. It doesn't seem to change no matter how good your work is. Depressed now. I think that's why people go for self-employment, at least, no boss is judging you for what you are worth..but you kind of have to already have seniority (or capital, or a big loan) to be a boss. And how to people even get their start...unless a bit of nepotism is involved?
This is what people don't tell you about the workplace/workforce. What a minefield it is. It's not like there is any security in it...!
This year might be the year that school librarians get pay equity after teacher aides got theres (took four long years and a legal battle) but with librarians, thing is, some people just kind of think we volunteer and work for free. As if what we do has no value.
I just think its always like that..people just look at you as cheap labour. It doesn't seem to change no matter how good your work is. Depressed now. I think that's why people go for self-employment, at least, no boss is judging you for what you are worth..but you kind of have to already have seniority (or capital, or a big loan) to be a boss. And how to people even get their start...unless a bit of nepotism is involved?
This is what people don't tell you about the workplace/workforce. What a minefield it is. It's not like there is any security in it...!
This year might be the year that school librarians get pay equity after teacher aides got theres (took four long years and a legal battle) but with librarians, thing is, some people just kind of think we volunteer and work for free. As if what we do has no value.
That's enterprising of them. I feel for young people today (I'm no longer in the 'young' category lol) who can't find decent jobs because they don't have experience. They might be qualified and all that but nobody wants to employ them.
Yes the tax side of it is a job in itself.
I know one girl who was studying some degree, then her parents divorced and she never finished, I think it was through a Bible school or something, maybe teaching. Anyway. She now works as a waitress (at a fancy hotel though) and has never gone back to school.
The other girl I know retrained as a social worker, and for years she was hoping to work in that field, when she finally got the job (after doing aforesaid merchandising at the supermarket to make ends meet) she had to spend so much time running round doing med runs for people at night in dangerous unknown situations as part of her job that it really cut into her actual real social work. Thankfully she's now found something different that doesn't involve med runs, but its just kind of unfair when you need to do things other than the job you are trained for, and makes you less able to do I suppose the important work.
I have thought about it and am thinking I'll apply at one of the florists near the funeral home up the road. Just entry level stuff as I am no way a professional trained florist. I am very amateur! I don't even win any prizes in my garden/floral club. But I will learn a lot on the job. Just part time to lend an extra hand. I hope they need help and Valentines day is coming up...so.
Now I can't just go in and ask for a job as I had done that many times before at other places and been totally rebuffed or ignored. So I will need to brush up my CV again and make it so compelling that they will want to ask me for an interview. The other thing I was thinking if they could use all their flower petals to make potpourri or wedding confetti..and dried flowers are now a big thing if you can preserve their colour etc.
Now I can't just go in and ask for a job as I had done that many times before at other places and been totally rebuffed or ignored. So I will need to brush up my CV again and make it so compelling that they will want to ask me for an interview. The other thing I was thinking if they could use all their flower petals to make potpourri or wedding confetti..and dried flowers are now a big thing if you can preserve their colour etc.
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So are you going to send letters out with a copy of your cv? are
Praying for you.
Would be a nice job Lanolin
So are you going to send letters out with a copy of your cv? are
Praying for you.
yes I'll send a cover letter with the CV. I will just keep it short cos there are so many things you could put on the CV but aren't relevant to the job/role you are applying for.
I don't know if they'll have much extra business cos of covid (are people still buying flowers?) but flowers do need looking after and surely they can't have stopped deliveries when flowers can just be dropped at people's doors with a note. There's also potted colour as well.
I feel a bit like Eliza Doolittle.
Except there isn't a big flower market near me (I think it's somewhere closer to town) but we all have to make ends meet. I remember going to a cut flower farm, they did roses, they were all grown in glasshouse computer controlled conditions, hydroponically and they had cool stores to keep the flowers fresh and a giant bunching machine from Holland. They said they had to change their model from international market to domestic flower market as the flowers were fresher domestically and lasted longer (though they have to compete with out of season flowers flown in from elsewhere) and it just made better sense.
I know you can't grow peonies in Auckland (too warm) but people want to buy them cos they can't grow them here lol. And we can grow agapanthus and arum lily like weeds here.
Except there isn't a big flower market near me (I think it's somewhere closer to town) but we all have to make ends meet. I remember going to a cut flower farm, they did roses, they were all grown in glasshouse computer controlled conditions, hydroponically and they had cool stores to keep the flowers fresh and a giant bunching machine from Holland. They said they had to change their model from international market to domestic flower market as the flowers were fresher domestically and lasted longer (though they have to compete with out of season flowers flown in from elsewhere) and it just made better sense.
I know you can't grow peonies in Auckland (too warm) but people want to buy them cos they can't grow them here lol. And we can grow agapanthus and arum lily like weeds here.
well..sent off my CV...never know. Sometimes you don't even get a reply when you send things into the ether.
Or months later you get a letter. Thank you for applying etc, unfortunately you weren't successful.
Sorry being negative here but that's just how things roll with job hunting a lot of the time. Unless you KNOW the people personally, they not invested in you. Of course, people with connections get employed by friends and family via word of mouth. But unless you from a rich family, its not situations you are likely to want (How about being my slave for a year? It will be fun! Or...Do you want to do a job I don't want to do? I'll pay you half or nothing)
Or months later you get a letter. Thank you for applying etc, unfortunately you weren't successful.
Sorry being negative here but that's just how things roll with job hunting a lot of the time. Unless you KNOW the people personally, they not invested in you. Of course, people with connections get employed by friends and family via word of mouth. But unless you from a rich family, its not situations you are likely to want (How about being my slave for a year? It will be fun! Or...Do you want to do a job I don't want to do? I'll pay you half or nothing)
People do that and some send out hundreds of applications but get nothing back. There aren't that many flower shops near me though. In fact there's only ONE as the rest have all gone out of business or moved premises.
Also there was only ONE bookshop in the whole mall.
I don't have the energy to job hunt like its a tinder dating app. When you do that you just end up with a whole lot of jobs like 'gentleman's escort' or 'telemarketing'. When narrowed down to my area, because sitting in traffic for an hour before even getting to work is not something I want to do (or fall asleep, tired and hungry on way home) there's not all that much.
Family was like..what, you can't deliver flowers. You're not a registered courier driver and they'd probably want you to drive all across town. I'm like really. I thought the whole point of getting flowers delivered by interflora was that is was close to where you want the flowers delivered so they'd be fresh. Shows you what I know then! Also, who would want to click and collect their own flowers? Most people buy flowers to give to someone else!